the employee didn't want to use his name but sent it to us from la guardia. this is the tarmac, where the flights couldn't land. this reminds us why 13,000 flights were cancelled. take a look at this video. let's listen. look at that. >> remnants of hurricane sandy. >> that is like michigan, near chicago. our reporter said the wind was swirling. people were stopping to watch these waves. he doesn't ever remember seeing lake michigan this violent with this kind of storm surge. this is just incredible. look at that. all right, the next one is heartbreaking, folks, let's go to this out of staten island, which, as we know, has been -- he told us about this. >> this is about half a mile from south beach. and nobody expected the water to go that far. so people in that area didn't even leave, and i had a friend who woke up and the water came running into their house. and that is probably why so many people died in that area. because nobody expected the water to go that far. >> he was actually in sri lanka during that tsunami, and he believes this is similar, just on